About the Poems

Written over many years in many circumstances and locations, these poems tell the story of one family. Bahner has created poems while standing at the kitchen sink, playing with her children in her yard, or waking in the night, knowing that her husband Max was a steady pleasure and strength.

The Collection

Put aside in a notebook, the poems accumulated - in pencil and pen on papers large and small, paper-clipped and dated. She realized she could gather them to share joy and thoughts and thus, "Do You Wonder?"